Art of manufacturing weft for rugs.



No. 756,236. PATENTED APR..5, 1904.

" I A; S. HORLAGHER.

' ART OF MANUFAGTURING WEFT FOR RUGS. APPLIOATION PILED HAYB, 1903.

NO MODEL.

I I i UNIT D ST TEsv I Patented April 5, 1904.

PATENT O FICE.

ART OF MANUFATUFING'WEFT FOR ugs;

SPECVIFICATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 756, 236, dated Aprl 5, 1904. Application filed May, 1903. SerialNo. 155352. (No spec'mes.) i

Tu all whom/ it may cancer-n Be it known that "I, ADAM S. HORLACHER, a

I citizen of the United States, residing at lndian-:

apolis, -in thecounty of Marion and State of Indiana, have'invented new and useful' Improve'ments in the Art of Manufacturing Weft for R'ugs, of which the following is aspecificaton. a

. My invention rlates to new and .useful im-` .provements in theart of manufacturiiig weft from and out of worn-outcarpet or cutting's of carpet, to be used as a material to be woven into rugs, and will be hereinafter set forth, and

. worn-out oroldcarpets is of comparatively particularly point'ed out in the claims. u

The art of manufacturing weft for ru gs from recent origin, and the difficulty experienced in `;manufacturing `"ruge from said old material consisted, and it still exists, chiefly in the apquired wdth'and said strips were raveled at' I until the rug or carpet was completed.

their edges insuch a way as to remove 'the' warp therefrom andretain a portionof the strings or warps 'in the center of the strip, which warps boundand held the original filling of the carpet together( This operationhaving been completed, the material thus pre pared was ready for the' ,looIn. Theweaver being supplied with `the strips thus prepared applied the same bye-hand 'to and 'between the 'warpin the loom, nd'whei said prepared material was thusmanually placed in position between the warps the loom was manually operated to weave said strips in the usual way, after which operation he proceded in asimilar way to again apply. the said fille'r in the same way,.and thus 'the -process'was continlued t is obvious that this state of the art was crude, tedious, and slow;. crude, because the product thus woven was roughhard, and unsightly; tedious, because the rotten strips of carpet had tobe placed .by hand during tlieprocess of hand -weaving between the warps and spliced 5 v together oi' lapped at their ends; `slow, because long time was required to sel'e'ct the material and place it in position, which placingin position required great care in handling in order that 'the rotten material be not broken into short pieces, necessitating a'n undue amount ofsplicing or lapping of the ends of the broken pieces, thereby creating" uneven places or lumps on' the surface of the rug, and thus the operator was obliged alternately to place the' weft or filling in` and between the warp and operate the batten or lay of the loom, which .alternate Operations consumedtime. Slight improvements had been introduced over the above process, consstng of 'a series of oper.-

ations-first, raveling 'the strips of carpet on y their ed ge's, as previously described, then piec- 'ing the raveled strips at their ends by stitch ing them. together to form a continuous or a very long strip. The long strip thus made was'wound upon'a-suitable shuttle, which was i operated .by hand; `This, While a slight ina-- provement on 'the old process, did not elimi-' of thesameand reduceth'e cost of its production to a minimum-other new and' improved means and nethods must of necessity be employed and which improved method and means constitutes my invention, which I will now des scrbe.

First, the main object of this invention is to provide a filler or weft made from wornout Carpet, with a strengtheningmeans whereby the filler or weft may be used in= connection witha' fly-shuttle; second', to provide a means whereby the reinforcing string or bond will be applied to and so twisted with the car- *pet-strips, that have been previously raveled as described, that s'aidreinforcing string .or bond will be completely concealed and form a part of the filler or weftg third, -to provide around said ends ofthe piecesto beconnct-- ed to bind or splice them together, ,which operation is performed during the process of showing the raveled edges thereof.

twisting.

Another object of this invention isto manu-` facture aweft or filling for rugs or other anal-' ogous material, so that when woven intoa fabric both surfaces will be alike, and'onse quently reversible; and a .still further object is to construct such weft that when woven into a fabric the warp of said fabric will be completely'concealed and embedded in the filling, and therefore protected from wear.

I attain these objccts by means of the fill ing constructed in the manner described in the specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which similar characters of reference `designate like parts.

Figure 1 rcpresents a th read orstring which may be of any required degree of coarseness or strength and which is used as a bond or bracing-piece for the raveled strips of carpet constituting the filler or weft. Fig. 2 is a View of a strip cut from any refuse carpet and showing the warp and the filler o'r weft thereof. Fig. 3 is a view of said strip after having undergone the raveling processand Fig. 4 shows the raveled strip and bond or binder applied to said strip to extend longitudinally thereof and showing said fille' before the operation of twisting said. strip and binder together. Fig. 5 is a'view showing the strip and binder twisted together, one half of which is tightly twisted and, the other loosely twisted and exposing the core to View; and Fig. 6 is a view showing the manner of splicing the ends of the strips together to form an uni broken strip of any required length.

Any refuse carpet, carpet-cuttings, or wornout carpet is cut into strips 1` of suitable width and raveled at theiredges to remove the outer warp-threads 2 and retain at least two warpthreads 3 to extend longitudinally of the strips to form a binder to retain the original filler 4 intact( .The binder 5 may be of any suit able yarn or thread material and is applied to the raveled strip 1, as shown particularly in- Fig. 4:, and said strip l and binder 5 are twisted together by any suitable means to unite and combine the two together, as shown particularly in Fig. 5, one half, A, of which is' shown slightly and loosely twisted'to expose i the binder 5 to View, and the other half, B, is

twisted tightly to show the manner by which the binder' is concealedand completely encircled by the raveled strips l. N Now since the strips constituting the filling are of variable lengths, the lengths depending on the' condition of the carpet used and the manner in which said carpet is cut u p, the said strips must be united or spliced at' their -.ds, 'and as the older method, 'previously described, is a slow, tedious, and expensive operation I employ therefor a new means of splicing and -proceed to describe.

i i binding the ends of said strips together, which 5 operation is performed coneurrently, opne lrly so with the operation off'tj :t/ing the nd 5 and the'raveled stripltogether and process constitutes anotheryery impo' tit feature of my inventiom which I 'will:

'The binder 5 and strip l-having been twist ed *together'to an extent almost to theend of said strip 1, (see Fig. 6,) said binder 'e i's looped at the point of juncture of said end 6 and 6' in such a manner that the loop 7 thus formed encircles, the end 6 of said strip 1, and the end 6 of the next adjacent strip to be connected isplaced within 'said loop 7 s that its end 6 laps over the end 6 of`said strip I and the binder 5 is drawn tightly in the direction of'the arrowa to cause said loop 7 to contract to tightly 'hold said ends ;6 and 6 together to form a strong splice, after which operation of'splicing the twisting process is continned, and thus the twisting and the splicing 'of other pieces or strips'is continued until-the -required length of filling or weft is made. It

is obvious that weft or filling thus prepared and made is strong and durable and sufi'iciently strong to stand the Stress of being worked in a fly-shuttle to be woven intoa fabric;

Having thus fully described this my invention, what I 'claim as new and useful, and de si re to secure by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is- I 1., The improvement in the art o'f manufacturin g weft for rugs or 'other analogous fabric, which consists in first cutting a carpet into strips of suitable width, raveling the edges of the same toleave the original warp in thecenter of the strip for a binder'or bond, and then finally twisting such strip to 'cause the 'pro: jecting edges to radiate from the center.

2. The improvement in the art of manufacturing weft for rugs or other analogous fabric, which consists in first cutting a carpet into strips of the required width, then" raveling the edges of said strips and applying a string or binder to said strip to extend longitudinally thereof, and finally twisting said strip and binder together to forma single piece.

3. The improvementin the art of manufact turing weft for rugs or other analogous fabric, which consists in 'first cutting a carpet into II5 strips then applying a string or binder to said I strip to extend longitudnally thereof, lap-. ping or splicing the ends of said carpet-strips and twisting the-said binder and splices thus formed to form a continuous piece.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two 'subscribing witnesses.

ADAM' s. HORLACHER,

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